Climate Cycles

Climates changing have become conversations from which learning could be paramount! Yet, information on climate cycles, presumed as waves of natural, unavoidable temperature alterations in Earth’s biomes, isn’t supposed to be confusing, smothered, or disappeared into the black hole of corporate and political bank accounts.

At this point in my self education, I distinguish climate cycles from climate change or global warming or the warming globe, or whatever the term du jour might be, because the latter terms have been whelmingly corporatized and politicized. From books, audio and videoed lectures, I’ve saturated myself with mere traces of geological and astronomical information referring to climate cycles. Here’s a snapshot description.

Layers of grand sweeping waves of change have their own rhythms in warming and cooling cycles over eons. Cycles have impacted, and constantly impact Earth’s crust. The crust is that part of the planet upon which continents float, and the crust is to the planet what the skin is to an apple: Both are thin and vulnerable.*

As scientists feel less pinched, layers of new presumptions and evidence will wash over us like tides on a beach. We science-friendly people won’t have to wait very long before credible books and reports update or blot any political movie, film, or documentary sensationalizing nature’s climate cycles. Scientific revelations on solar and climate cycles will probably be updated as quickly as unethical governances will be exposed this decade. We must become really good swimmers to stay in the flow of science, and here’s why.

On Tuesday, January 30, 2007, National Public Radio (KQED, San Francisco, California USA) aired a commentary, which I quickly noted on the second listening: Nearly half of the 279 USA federal scientists said they had been pressed by the current administration to alter their results on climate change; in effect, scientific evidence had been censured. Another commentary presumed the administration’s modus operandi safe guarded big oil interests rather than protect the environment [during the last six years]. Brackets are mine.

So, as more climate cycles science is released to global citizenries, what are some tips when conversing about the latest science reviews, articles, journals, reports, and so on?

When someone says ‘scientific officials said…,’ or ‘experts agreed,’ or ‘vast majority’ or ‘consensus,’ then request names and whom the scientists represent. The answers will give pointers to which organizations fund or payroll scientists’ biases.

* Here’s a simplified geological training on Earth’s warming cycles heard from Jim Berkland, USA, certified geologist specializing in volcanology for 15 years; audio interview available at EarthChangesMedia dot com.

The last major ice age was 70 to 10 millennia ago, but in the middle of that period spanned 30 to 40 millennia when temperatures were warmer than today.

The ice age peaked about 18 millennia ago; apparently, between 10-11 millennia ago, temperatures rapidly warmed.

Over a span of the most recent 2 to 3 millennia, periodic glacial periods alternated with long intervals of warming temperatures.

In the middle ages, 800–1100 AD, it was warmer than today; then came the little ice age from around 1300 to 1850. Since then, our planet has steadily warmed, and would do so without human’s carbon dioxide emissions.

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